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2024 / VOLUME 30
Kevin B.
Dixon Street
Jacqueline Berger
5 p.m.
Abby Caplin
Falling Apart
Morgan Christie
Way Way Bon
Caleb Clark
Because of Cabbages and Cream Puffs
Tricia Currans-Sheehan
My Mother
John Dorroh
Balance
Kristina Erny
Early Life
Emile Estrada
This Side of the Wall
Judith Ford
I Try to Be Here
Sap Rises
Wind Has No Real Voice
Leigh Green
i’m jealous of the young tree growing in a landfill, from a pit scarred by the Scape of my teeth.
Meredith Davies Hadaway
What My Hands Say
Cordelia Hanemann
Wednesday’s Child
Jaime Herrera
A Borderless Border
JM Huck
Xenophobic Fortune Cookies
Katie King
Assembly of Lastingness
Jerrod Laber
Shadows
Mitu Malhotra
Where I’m From
Seve Bleue
J. Parker Marvin
44256
Tory Pearman
On the Properties of Hidden Things
Nicolette Reim
The Man with Green Shoelaces
S. A. Renschler
Uncle Don, Vanna White, and a Pandemic from Another Time
Walker Rose
July 4th, Two-Thousand-Something
Erika Seshadri
I Was an Orphan
Shyla Shehan
Love As a Web / Begins
Beth Suter
What’s Cracked
Noor Tannir
Blue, Blue, Blue
Teatuahere Teiti-Gierlach
On Being Mā’ohi
Ellen June Wright
To Those Who Would Not Die
BIRD IN YOUR HANDS PRIZE
Winner
Danielle Shandiin Emerson
her, and those before her.
Runner-Up
Anastasia Ibrahim
[Refugee]
joy must be implicated
from exchanges of desolation //
in between the heavens of heartbreak,
it is curated outside the walls of a museum, a university, a home
Runner-Up
Bertha Isabel Crombet
Ode to Crepuscular Creatures
